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December 7, 2011

Yesterday I had two session in VS Live, one about the new features of WCF 4, and the other about the new way to develop web applications using ASP.NET MVC, the Razor view engine, jQuery, and IIS 7.5 Express. The slide decks and demo code for both sessions can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/vslive-2011-orlando I really enjoyed delivering both sessions, and congratulations to all the people that won Angry Bird balls for answering my questions, and for asking tough questions. Hopefully we will meet in next year’s VSLive (if my sessions are picked up again). ...

Lately I’ve been writing and speaking a lot about WCF 4.5, but while delivering my “What’s new in WCF 4” session in Visual Studio Live yesterday I realized that there is one feature of WCF 4 that most people are not aware of, and do not really understand how useful it is – Standard Endpoints.
In WCF we always have to specify a set of address+binding+contract (ABC) for our endpoints. If our endpoints also need to be configured, for example – change the binding configuration, or the endpoint behavior, then we need to add some more configuration. We can use...